President Trump said Saturday he's considering a posthumous pardon for boxer Jack Johnson at the urging of actor Sylvester Stallone.
"Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial," Trump tweeted.
"Others have looked at this over the years, most thought it would be done, but yes, I am considering a Full Pardon!" he continued.
Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion of the world. An all-white jury convicted him in 1913 for transporting a woman across state lines for "immoral purposes," which was illegal under the Mann Act.
Johnson served a year in prison and was released in 1921. He died in 1946.
